It's been a while!!!

So where has the summer gone or should I ask did it ever arrive? Overall the weather was poor with cool temperatures and a lot of grey skies; what a great month to take off eh?!?!? Nevertheless it didn't stop me getting the garden sorted but it did stop me getting a lovely sun tan.

The vegetables overall this summer have had a varied success - good lettuces and beans (quite bored of beans by September) but not great courgettes. Beetroots were a half and half crop - some were whoppers and and some were no bigger than a marble. Same with carrots - some horse carrots and some tiddlers. Overall though nothing has shown great growth and anything planted later in the season for a autumn crop has been a waste of time. My spring onions are no more than sprigs of grass and it is now time to put my over-wintering variety into the ground. I've left the carrots in but seeing as they haven't grown any bigger than a few inches I'm not getting excited.

Over the summer I have also been doing wedding stuff, which still fails to get me overly excited (the planning not the wedding)- it is just another thing to do although I must say it feels like a busman's holiday in a funny. No really it is a shame we couldn't do it earlier in the year as to be honest a whole year of planning is too long really; sod's law thatI quit RREF otherwise we could have had a nice September autumnal wedding. Only ten weeks to go anyway so not long; I'm in two minds about the day - nervous as hell and anxious about being in front of everyone but excited about the overall 'marriage' and really looking forward to the reception i.e. chance to relax! It will be lovely to see all the people who matter to us there; sad that our dads can't be there. I suppose I just can't imagine what on earth a wedding day feels like; it must be a whirl of nerves, excitement, fun, laughter and lots of people. I'm glad we only have a smallish number as I do wonder how one could speak to more than about 60 in a day. I'm slowly crossing things off my list; I think we are reasonably on track.

Other main thing in my life is job-hunting which is about as fun as plucking nose hairs!!! Not having a job is far from ideal especially with wedding coming up and more so the honeymoon. I have registered with agencies in town and online but am now starting to read books on career change. "What Color is My Parachute" is one and "Do What You Are" is the other; its all very well saying do what you are but after completing the MBTI questionning I can't even work out who I am!!!! The parachute book is quite interesting and takes a different approach but we'll see what happens...education is still there in my mind particularly adult education e.g. literacy, numeracy, etc.